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Nigeria's kidnapped girls sold into marriage
More than 200 kidnapped girls and women have been reportedly sold into marriage with their Boko Haram abductors for $12.
Last updated: 01 May 2014 19:15
Scores of young girls and women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Boko Haram abductors, a local human rights group has reported.
Halite Aliyu, of the Borno-Yobe People?s Forum, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that more than 200 girls who were kidnapped two weeks ago had been sold to the fighters for $12.
Aliyu said the information given about the mass weddings was coming from villagers in the Sambisa Forest, on Nigeria?s border with Cameroon where Boko Haram was known to have a number of hideouts.
"The latest reports are that they have been taken across the borders, some to Cameroon and Chad,'' Aliyu said.
It was not possible to verify the reports.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/afric...s-sold-into-marriage-2014430174029374520.html
More than 200 kidnapped girls and women have been reportedly sold into marriage with their Boko Haram abductors for $12.
Last updated: 01 May 2014 19:15
Scores of young girls and women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Boko Haram abductors, a local human rights group has reported.
Halite Aliyu, of the Borno-Yobe People?s Forum, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that more than 200 girls who were kidnapped two weeks ago had been sold to the fighters for $12.
Aliyu said the information given about the mass weddings was coming from villagers in the Sambisa Forest, on Nigeria?s border with Cameroon where Boko Haram was known to have a number of hideouts.
"The latest reports are that they have been taken across the borders, some to Cameroon and Chad,'' Aliyu said.
It was not possible to verify the reports.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/afric...s-sold-into-marriage-2014430174029374520.html